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  • The Wonder of the Visible

    THE WONDER OF THE VISIBILE

    There are artists who describe the world, and artists who teach us to look at it anew. In this exhibition, Fontanini and GPaolo create a journey in which reality is not merely represented, but illuminated by an additional light: femininity becomes overwhelming, the city turns into a vertical tension, architecture becomes prayer, the sea opens itself to storytelling, and human bonds take on the concrete form of protection and memory.

    The works gathered here arise from different experiences — observation, travel, memory, poetic invention — yet they all converge in the same disposition of gaze: one that recognizes in the visible a place still capable of wonder. For this reason, the exhibition does not follow a single iconographic theme. Instead, it brings together skylines and cathedrals, flowering fields and marine depths, intimate scenes and unexpected apparitions, allowing the visitor to discover, step by step, a common thread.

    Here, that thread is wonder. Not as an escape, but as a profound form of attention. In the paintings of Fontanini and GPaolo, the world remains recognizable and yet is transformed: an imperfect pane of glass alters an ancient city, a tourist “from another world” moves silently through New York, the Mediterranean comes alive with surprising presences, a grandfather protects a child from the wind, and a simple table of bread, wine, and cheese becomes an image of gratitude.

    In this journey, painting does not confine reality within a definition; it reopens it. And it reminds us that truly seeing always means, in some measure, allowing ourselves to be involved.

    GPaolo

    Event Information

    Period: From June 4 to June 11, 2026,
    with the opening on Friday, June 5 at 6:00 PM

    Event Curator: Andrea Polo

    Where: Galleria degli Artisti – Via Nirone 1, 20123 Milano

    The Galleria degli Artisti was founded in 1979 by Maria Salvi, a journalist and art critic with a keen eye for the cultural landscape of her time. Today, the gallery is meticulously managed by Emma Salvi, who continues its work, enriching it with a vibrant program of events and cultural initiatives.

    Catalogo Fontanini Macario 05_2026Download

  • Invisible Thresholds

    INVISIBLE THRESHOLDS

    was born as a refuge at a moment when everyday life is no longer enough, when a language capable of restoring depth to our gaze becomes necessary. Each work is an act of care, a form of beauty that nourishes the spirit. It does not erase scars, but makes them legible. It offers a pause from the noise and opens a fissure toward a more authentic part of our existence. Time expands, the superfluous scatters like dust in the wind, and what truly matters remains.

    Each work becomes a passageway: the viewer does not remain outside. They enter. And in that entry, something simple and decisive happens. One recognizes oneself.

    Not better, not different. More real.

    “The visible is what we perceive, the invisible is what sustains us.”

    Carla Pugliano

    Event Information

    Period: from July 3 to July 12, 2026,,
    Opening event on Saturday, July 4 at 4:30 PM

    Event Curator: Carla Pugliano

    Where: Museo Diocesano e Capitolare di Terni
    Via XI Febbraio 4, Terni

    The splendid setting of Terni, an Umbrian town that preserves numerous treasures of Italy’s artistic heritage, hosts within the spaces of the Diocesan and Capitular Museum, the most important in the Umbria region, the contemporary art exhibition “INVISIBLE THRESHOLDS”, curated by Carla Pugliano, artist, artistic director of CathArt Gallery, and consultant for L’Atlante dell’Arte Contemporanea, Giunti Editions. Daniele Radini Tedeschi will be present as a guest, a renowned art critic, writer, and current curator of the 61st edition of the Venice Biennale Arte – Grenada Pavilion. The initiative, sponsored by the Municipality of Terni and addressed to Italian and international artists, was created in collaboration with Gruppo Start, CathArt Gallery, and the cultural association La Rosa dei Venti.

  • Premio Arte Expositiva

    PREMIO ARTE EXPOSITIVA

    The Expositiva Art Prize—organized by EXPOSITIVA APS—was created from the desire to promote contemporary art as a tool for renewal, capable of generating new ideas and inspiration.

    Artists, free from thematic constraints, can express themselves through elements, images, concepts, and materials that represent individual thought, their world, and their unique and subjective artistic sensibility.

    The Prize is hosted at Castello Isimbardi in Castello d’Agogna (PV), dating back to the 13th century: a prestigious venue that offers an important showcase for emerging and creative artists.

    The artworks exhibited within the spaces of Castello Isimbardi are set in a place rich in centuries of history, where each one engages in dialogue with memory and the past.

    Event Information

    Dates: from March 7–15, 2026, with the opening on Saturday, March 7 at 5:00 PM

    Eventi Curator: Stefano Boschetti

    Where: Castello Isimbardi
    Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, 37
    27030 Castello d’Agogna PV 

  • Forme d’Arte

    FORME D’ARTE

    On this occasion I will take part in the group exhibition “Forme d’Arte – Sculpture & Painting”, hosted at the Sala del San Leone in the heart of Pietrasanta. The exhibition brings different artistic languages into dialogue— from sculpture to painting—united by the desire to portray contemporary life through material, light, and each artist’s personal sensitivity.

    Pietrasanta has long been a symbolic place for art: a crossroads of marble, foundries, artisan workshops and galleries, it has welcomed and inspired generations of artists, building over time an international reputation as an open-air creative laboratory. The initiative is organized by Promo-Terr and is held under the patronage of the Municipality of Pietrasanta. I will present four oil-on-canvas works: “Dopo la notte, il lavoro non è ancora finito” (2024), “I guerrieri della luce” (2024), “Il Nonno e il Nipotino” (2025) and “Rifrazione” (2025).

    TALK AND DEBATE:
    ETHICAL USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN PAINTING

    On January 24th at 5:00 PM, at the exhibition venue and in agreement with the organizers, I have scheduled a talk and a closing debate on this topic.

    The goal is to demonstrate how AI can enter the painting process without distorting authorship and what rules to adopt out of respect for the public, colleagues, and the market.

    In some of my works, I have used AI to generate a basis for study or to explore compositional solutions before painting; painting is all about execution, correction, material, and choice.

    During my talk, I will refer to the painting on display, “Grandfather and Grandson.” This painting was born from a dream I was half asleep. The image was surprisingly clear: not a vague idea, but a precise scene, with a certain light and a certain gesture. I described that vision in detail and used artificial intelligence as a support tool during the study phase: to explore some variations of composition and atmosphere, not to “paint the painting for me.” The painting itself was then an entirely manual process: color choices, corrections, material, and above all the attempt to preserve the original emotion of the dream. For me, the ethical use lies here: AI as a rapid laboratory to test possibilities, while maintaining transparency and accountability for the final work.

    Event Information

    Dates: From January 10 to February 4, 2026, daily from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm (closed on Mondays), with the opening on Saturday, January 10 at 4:30 pm.

    Event Curator: Gianni Capolei

    Where: Sala del San Leone – Pietrasanta – Via Giuseppe Garibaldi, 70, 55045 Pietrasanta

    During the evening of Saturday, 24 January, Promo-Terr organized a brief talk by GianPaolo Macario on “The ethical use of Artificial Intelligence in painting.” During the session, around ten artists discussed and exchanged views on this topic, which is expected to have a significant impact on the profession in the coming years.

  • Desiderium

    DESIDERIUM

    There is an ancient word, desiderium, which in Latin denotes the aching absence of something loved and far away. Yet within that word also lives a gaze turned skyward, searching for missing stars, for possibilities still unseen.
    DESIDERIUM is an exhibition that explores desire as a creative force, as an impulse toward what is not there—or not there yet.
    The works selected will chart emotional maps: they will press toward an inner elsewhere, oscillating between nostalgia and visionary tension.
    Painting, sculpture, installation, photography, performance—the admitted art forms—become instruments for probing absence, but also for evoking new bearings. The missing stars become symbols of what our time lacks: meaning, care, beauty.
    Desire as memory, as vision, as the language of the body, of matter, of light. From it emerge works that offer no answers, but questions: intimate, vertiginous, necessary.
    “Desiderium” is thus a constellation of fertile absences, an exhibition space that becomes an interstice between the real and the hypothetical.
    An invitation to desire without measure.
    And never to stop searching the sky.

    Event information

    Date: January 31st to February 7th, 2026, with inauguration on Saturday, January 31st at 6:00 PM

    Event Curator: Gina Affinito

    Where: Venezia – Palazzo Pisani Revedin – Fondamenta Narisi, 4013A, 30124 Venezia VE

  • Agenda degli Artisti – Exhibition

    MOSTRA AGENDA DEGLI ARTISTI 2026

    is the new collective exhibition bringing colour and contemporary visions to the historic Libreria Bocca in Milan, under the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, the city’s “drawing room” just a few steps from the Duomo. Founded in 1775 and recognised as one of the oldest and most prestigious bookshops in Italy, Bocca is a Historic Shop, a Historic Venue of the Lombardy Region and a “Place of the Heart” of the FAI, a reference point for lovers of books, art and culture.(Il Giorno)

    The exhibition, curated by Simona Heart, will feature a dialogue between the works of several artists in a unique space, where floor-to-ceiling shelves and traces of publishing history become the backdrop to contemporary painting.

    Among the works on display will be the painting by GianPaolo Macario, Come un fremito felino, selected and published in the Agenda degli Artisti, which invites visitors to dwell on a vibrant instant of feline energy and sensitivity in the beating heart of Milan.

    Event Information

    Date: January 11-24, 2026, with opening on Sunday, January 11, from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

    Where: Bocca Bookshop, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II (Duomo), Milan

    Below the calendar page with the publication of the work:

  • Atlante dell’Arte Contemporanea 2026

    Atlante dell’Arte Contemporanea 2026

    Rooted in 1940, the Atlas of Contemporary Art is the longest-running Italian art yearbook and a touchstone for scholars, gallerists, and collectors.

    Recognized by the Senate of the Republic as an “instrument for promoting Italian culture worldwide,” it has cemented a historic role in mapping modern and contemporary art.

    Unique in its kind, it is featured at major international events: MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), Art Basel Miami, the Frankfurt Book Fair (Giunti stand), and the Venice Biennale (Book Pavilion at the Giardini).

    The next edition, in 2026—curated by Stefania Pieralice (Volume Curator) and Gianni Dunil (Editor-in-Chief)—will be presented at MoMA by renowned art critic Daniele Radini Tedeschi, further strengthening dialogue with global institutions. Published and distributed by Giunti, the Atlas of Contemporary Art reaches readers and industry professionals extensively.

    Event information

    Atlande Arte Contemporanea – Depliant 2025Download

  • Art Exchange: America & Italy Vibo Valentia

    Art Exchange: America & Italy – A Cultural Bridge Between Calabria and the United States

    From August 6 to 24, 2025, the elegant halls of Palazzo Gagliardi in Vibo Valentia will host the international group exhibition “Art Exchange: America & Italy”, promoted by the Carlo Rambaldi Foundation. After its successful debut in New York at the Culture Lab LIC in Long Island City, the event now arrives in Italy as a vibrant cultural exchange between two artistic worlds: Italian and American.

    The initiative aims to foster a visual and creative dialogue between Calabria and the United States, bringing together Italian and American artists through diverse expressive languages united by shared values and universal perspectives. As Giuseppe Lombardi, Vice President of the cultural association Rambaldi Promotion, stated, the exhibition “highlights art as a universal language capable of transcending borders and promoting mutual understanding.”

    Among the featured works are pieces ranging from tradition to innovation, showcasing a wide variety of styles, techniques, and artistic approaches. The exhibition as a whole invites visitors to reflect on the power of art as a tool for intercultural connection and as a vehicle for shared creativity..

    Event Information

    Date: From July 17 to August 24, 2025, with opening on Thursday, July 17 at 5:00 PM

    Where: Palazzo Gagliardi – Corso Umberto I, 121, 89900 Vibo Valentia VV

    Exhibition Curator: Daniela Rambaldi

    The Calabrian press and television gave extensive coverage to the event, which was covered and described on numerous occasions, often highlighting my painting of New York.

    PrimaStampa – Articolo 0725Download
    Informazione_it Articolo America_Italy Art Exchange Vibo ValentiaDownload

  • The Grandfather and the Little Grandson

    I resume: A crouched child covers his head with both hands. He opens one eye and looks around, bewildered, at a world lashed by the wind. The grandfather hugs him, wraps him up warmly. He takes his tiny hand and whispers, “don’t worry,” before accompanying him outside on one of the very first walks of his life.

    TITLE:   

    The Grandfather and the Little Grandson

    SUPPORT:

    Cotton canvas on frame

    SIZE:

    50 x 50 cm

    TECHNIQUE:

    Oil on canvas

    DATE:

    January 2025

    SERIAL N.:

    20250101

    NOTES:

    A fantasy subject, painted with a brush.

    AI used exclusively for preliminary studies; final work is handcrafted.
    When I use AI, I treat it like a sketching lab. For example, here I gave a precise brief—subject, lighting, materials, even a lens effect—and then corrected the output with specific indications (wind direction, shape of the peak). AI doesn’t decide: it speeds up the study phase. The ethics lie in two things: not opaquely copying other people’s material and honestly declaring that it is a design tool, while the final work (and the artistic choices) remain mine.

  • The World in an Instant

    First Solo Exhibition
    by GPaolo Macario

    Organized by Promo.terr within the exhibition spaces of the Grand Hotel Guinigi in Lucca.

    Twelve selected works presented to the public for a full month.

    From June 9th to July 9th, 2025

    Grand Hotel Guinigi – Lucca

    Curator: Gianni Capolei

    Grand hotel Guinigi – Lucca

    GianPaolo Macario presents “The World in an Instant”, an exhibition where the Lombard artist captures and freezes on canvas a variety of life’s images that surround him — a kaleidoscope of moments in which Macario seizes the fleeting instant of a cat, a landscape, a woman, or a memory by the sea.

    The exhibition is part of the “Art Path” curated by Promo-Terr Association, offering guests a true artistic tour inside the hotel — starting from the lobby and leading visitors floor by floor to discover the works on display.

    La Gazzetta di Lucca – Il mondo in un IstanteDownload
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